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A tailor is a person who makes or alters clothing, particularly in men's clothing. [1] The Oxford English Dictionary dates the term to the thirteenth century. [ 2 ]
A man's suit of clothes, in the sense of a lounge, office, business, dinner or dress suit, is a set of garments which are crafted from the same cloth. This article discusses the history of the lounge suit, often called a business suit when featuring dark colors and a conservative cut.
Fine hand sewing is a characteristic of high-quality tailoring, haute couture fashion, and custom dressmaking, and is pursued by both textile artists and hobbyists as a means of creative expression. [citation needed] The first known use of the word "sewing" was in the 14th century. [3]
Redfern & Sons (later Redfern Ltd) was a British tailoring firm founded by John Redfern (1820–1895) in Cowes on the Isle of Wight that developed into a leading European couture house (active: 1855–1932; 1936–1940). By the early 1890s, the business had branches in London, Edinburgh, Paris and New York. The Paris extension was operated as a ...
The history of Medieval European clothing and textiles has inspired a good deal of scholarly interest in the 21st century. Elisabeth Crowfoot, Frances Pritchard, and Kay Staniland authored Textiles and Clothing: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London, c.1150-c.1450 (Boydell Press, 2001).
In 1954 UDS acquired Alexandre Limited, a Leeds-based multiple tailor with over 88 stores owned by Bernard [23] and Jack Lyons and their families. [24] [25] Joseph Collier, the United Drapery Stores chairman, was struggling to turn around Prices Tailors and saw the Lyons as the men to turn it around. [26]
Chester Barrie was established in 1935 by expatriate English tailor Simon Ackerman, who wanted a British brand and tailoring for his New York-based clothing business. Locating its factory in Crewe from 1939, close to the Port of Liverpool and its cloth supplier in Huddersfield , it introduced semi-bespoke and ready-to-wear tailoring to the row ...
The word Darzi (दर्ज़ी درزی) literally means business of tailor. The Darzi claim descent from Idris , one of the Biblical and Koranic prophets. According to their traditions, Idris was the first person to learn the art of sewing. It is said to be derived from the Persian word darzan, which means to sew [citation needed]. This is ...